Erik Pears

This year, Jon Ledyard and I will be collaborating our scouting reports. We’ll play to our strengths – he’ll be focusing on the individuals while I’ll be looking at overall scheme. These reports will be broken down into two articles, one for offense and one for defense. Our reports for…

The Pittsburgh Steelers will play their third game of the 2015 season on the road Sunday at the Edward Jones Dome against the St. Louis Rams as they look to stack another win on top of their first one from last week. As usual, here is my best guess as…

In a game where several Pittsburgh Steelers stood out for remarkable performances, perhaps only Ryan Shazier was more impressive than defensive end Stephon Tuitt on Sunday. The second-year defensive end was relentless in dominating the 49ers offensive front in a variety of ways, both as a pass rusher and as…

The Pittsburgh Steelers will host the San Francisco 49ers at Heinz Field in Week 2 of the 2015 NFL season and while we’ve known that for quite a while now, what we didn’t know is that the 49ers would be without several key players on both sides of the football for…

Pittsburgh Steelers rookie nose tackle Daniel McCullers had a strong debut performance against the Giants two weeks ago, which got many excited for the young man’s future, quite frankly getting a bit ahead of ourselves. It’s clear that he’s made progress since his college tape was the only thing to…

Rookie Stephon Tuitt started his first preseason game at left defensive end due to injury, but he was back with the second-team defensive line last week when the Pittsburgh Steelers played the Buffalo Bills. Of course, he also played with the first-team defense when they went to their sub-packages, lining…

So far through two preseason games, Pittsburgh Steelers outside linebacker Jason Worilds has yet to really light the world on fire. While he hasn’t particularly played poorly by any means, he has yet to offer much beyond the intentional grounding call that should have been a sack. He hasn’t exactly…

By Alex Kozora Home stretch. The final Pittsburgh Steelers’ practice report from St. Vincent College. Day two of the joint practice with the Buffalo Bills. – By the time I got to camp at around 5:00 for the 5:30 practice, the field was already buzzing. Cody Wallace and Hebron Fangupo…

The Pittsburgh Steelers take on the Buffalo Bills tonight in their third preseason game of the 2012 season at Ralph Wilson Stadium in Buffalo and you can watch the game live on via the NFL Preseason Live Package. Teams are not required to turn in a full official inactive list…